CompuServe Messages

>>Jim, how could you be paying $18 per hour >> for 9600 local connect? The CIS forum charges >> (before they were changed) were something like >> $8.00 per hour. Ok, I went and checked. I had raised the prices slightly in both cases. Current CI$ charges are $9.60/hour for 9600 service. It amounts to about $18/hour in comparison with long distance downloading, though, due to 9600 max connect (as opposed to 14.4) and the inefficient protocol (as opposed to Zmodem – 1600 cps). The old price was $16/hour (not 18) for 9600. So, while the new price is a real help, I wouldn't download anything from here that I could get anywhere else in the US. It's just too expensive here to be picking up megs of files. But then, I don't think CI$ ever intended for this to be a huge collection of 3DS-related files, or we'd see many more files available here, like there is on TGA. Jim